Thousands of students and teachers across Wales will benefit from cutting-edge data analytics technology to improve student engagement, retention and performance as a result of a funding boost to be announced today by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) and Jisc.
Jeff Greene and Matt Bernacki are learning scientists in the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Education. They leverage the data that students create when they use digital resources to help them learn.
Timothy A. McKay is data scientist and professor of Physics, Astronomy, and Education at the University of Michigan. He joined UBC faculty, graduate students and staff on June 20, 2019, to deliver a keynote about his experiences at the University of Michigan.
Students interacting with universities often leave behind a virtual footprint that is used to gauge how well the university has managed to help and prepare these students. Learning analytics is using this data to analyze, measure, collate data, and more about the progress made by both students and educators.